Reddit has had subredditsimulator for years, stuff like that has been around a lot longer than the general public realizes. Could easily create a believable version of asklemmy, like you said. But the people who would want that are probably not the people who even bother responding to posts in the first place.
I hope Lemmy stays obscure enough to avoid the AI onslaught for a while longer, every major website is already completely overrun
You mentioned fleas, did they check for ear mites?
My cat did this for almost two years, sounds the EXACT same!! The mites were way deep in there I guess and the vet missed them for the longest time. We tried everything, I had been cleaning her ears with wipes one day and saw a little tiny moving dot. Called the vet like “I think there’s a bug in her ear?!?” and they gave me some ear drops, few weeks later they were gone and she hasn’t once scratched herself bloody ever since.
I’m new to Lemmy but I think I sent you a message lol
Oh boy, how long until things start making me feel old?? I’m still waiting for that day to come!
Oh I know, I just thought it was funny that the idea of someone not having had a landline was weird to me, until I realized that most people nowadays don’t have them! We just had one of those “plug directly into the phone line, no electricity needed” phones until 2006ish because my mom was paranoid about caller ID for the longest time, so I get it :)
I have a can opener that just breaks the factory seal instead of actually cutting the metal, and I put it on the side of the can. I wonder if these mixups are just from everyone using different kinds of can openers without realizing it lol
Haha this is kinda hilarious. I’m in my late 20s and, reading your comment, I’m like “oh man I can’t imagine skipping over landlines and going straight to cell phones, is that really a thing?” And then I realized that, yeah, a majority of the people younger than me probably did exactly that. But I also still consider the Wii a “new” game console, so I might just be frozen in time or something…
Actually, no, went straight to the article and totally misread the second half while focusing on how fucked the whole thing was. Shame on me. Just goes to show how utterly dumb some commenters can be (meaning me)
When I get a second phone call and answer it, it puts my current phone call on hold. It then has an option on the screen to switch between calls, along with a button that I think merges the calls? Never tried that one. When I hang up on the second call, it switches me back to the first call automatically. I’ve never heard it called “call waiting” before so I’m not sure if this is what you’re referring to or not, though…
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac potentially rate-fixing(?) mortgages? Can’t imagine the current admin having an issue with that. How long until the Fannie Mae employees drawing attention to this are fired for unrelated reasons?
Looking at your online history (nanobots in COVID shots? really?) I’m gonna go ahead and let you win this one, you clearly need to feel special much more than any of us do. So, good job! Your opinion is definitely important enough to make people rethink their priorities! Society would be in shambles without you and your guidance!
That’s crazy to me. My parents still have a landline, and I used my VCR maybe two months ago to watch my copy of The Land Before Time. I’m almost 30. I know I could stream it online, but it just doesn’t hit the same